Posted on 06/23/2005 7:30:08 AM PDT by Helmholtz
U.S. Supreme Court says cities have broad powers to take property.
Seems like the backyard snail darter should win since it the ESA has stood in the way of less dramatic economic development.
God forbid there is asbestos at the properties...
I went there. I couldn't have understood it any less if it were written in Chinese. What did it mean?
Their houses first!
Do you mean can these kinds of takings be stopped despite the Supreme Court's decision? Absolutely! Of course!
The Supreme Court didn't say states and local governments (including municipalities) MUST do what was done here, only that the Fifth Amendment doesn't prohibit it. Concerned citizens need to get to work immediately and take every reasonable step to prevent their states and local governments from taking advantage of this decision. They should start by examining their own state laws and constitutional provisions.
Some states already have stringent constitutional prohibitions or legislation in place that would prevent what happened in Connecticut. If your state isn't such a state, start pushing your state representatives HARD to make it one.
shhhh
don't bring logic into this subject.
Didnt you know? Every time there is a decision FR likes, they laud it to the ceilings while the DUmmies get bent. Now I would bet the DUmmies are laughing at the FReepers that are saying REVOLUTION and all that other whacko stuff.
This ruling sucks, no doubt about it. But it isn't really going to change much short term. Maybe in the long term but only in certain growth areas.
Make sure to wear your govm't approved and mandated safety harness...
Wow. This is bad..........
Sure is. I am in exactly the position described. I have a small house on 1/3 acre, completely surrounded by the local tycoon who (with others) are wanting to put in a mall and other associated establishments. Rumor says something going on that would devalue said property. I've had the property for almost twenty years and was planning on cashing in for retirement nest egg.
My anger is beyond description!!!
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The Founders called it Natural law, or the law of Nature and nature's God in the Declaration of Independence.
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What is the affirmative public harm caused by Kelo's property? Her property did not cause crummy schools, crowded roads, and air pollution..
Admit it, you just like slapping O'Connor around.. ;p
Thank you.
Yep, just heard on Brit Hume all the demonRATS except KKK wrote a letter to PRESIDENT Bush telling him he needs TO CHECK WITH THEM BEFORE NOMINATING ANOTHER JURIST.
I don't remember all the specifics, but this exact same thing is happening outside St. Louis.
You can blame it on ignorance if you want, but a majority of the people do not want Roe v Wade overturned even though in other polling they disagree with its application.
The problem with that strategy is that the state has a vested interest in maintaining the opposite case: that it indeed have this power to maximize tax revenues. My own feeling is that the states will fight any such citizen action, including their own courts. For instance, the State of South Carolina and Jasper Country are even now squabbling among themselves as to who will garner the most gelt from taking land owned by Georgia in South Carolina on the Savannah.
Can you imagine either the state or the county willingly giving up that power, especially after today's wideranging decision?
I remember the Proposition 13 fight in California; it took enormous energy on the part of many people to push it through. Can you imagine that much energy being expended, that many people emulating Howard Jarvis and then-Governor Reagan these days in every state capital?
Mark Levin is all over this now. He's talking about the rogue court, the Men in Black (as he titled his book).
Link:
http://www.wabcradio.com/listenlive.asp
(You might have to do a sign-up for that station, can't remember.)
He's saying the courts are attacking us. They have decided that the 5th amendment doesn't say what it says. They have not followed the Constitution. He is saying that Kennedy is a complete turncoat.
You didn't pay attention. My home was/is an R1 residential that was turned into "mixed use" with the stroke of a pen. My neighbor immediately converted the house over my back fence into a C1 commercial with a 4 story commercial building that is still under construction. The property owner happily sold that piece of property to my neighbor last year. There are many other pieces of residential property that would make fine commercial land in the zone. Now, the city can force the issue even if the homeowner doesn't want to sell. The house right next to the new commercial building is on a corner. The idiot next door neighbor is already threatening to buy it, scrape it and put another business there.
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